technically ESXi is the host OS, and its running a VM of Ubuntu (full OS) and thats where the BCCore is installed.

backstory:

virtual machine or VM = a full OS version of whatever OS i wanna run, on a host system. the host system can just be your desktop with VirutalBox installed. however i have a server box with a hypervisor. a HV is a host system designed to boot to it's own OS and runs many, many VMs. such as hyperV, ESXi, proxmox, etc. this is how modern data centers work, a single server running VMs of many, many, OSes.


anyways, i checked the logs, all empty. it seems to freeze up immediately, never writes any data to disk.

i am running full Ubuntu as an OS, but in a VM in ESXi. ESXi is like HyperV, only linux based. (not everybody uses, or even ever _wants_ to use, windows)

setting up a fresh VM (VMWare ESXi 6.5) of Ubuntu 16.04.5 (fresh install), and when i launch bitcoin core (to allow it to sync up to the chain) the whole VM freezes up. got plenty of ram, cores and drive space setup for the VM. the 10 other VMs on my server box are running fine.